The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
FULL SOURCE ONLINE About Dr. Bates Gill (US), New and seventh Director, Stockholm International Peace Research Intitute Most interesting sentence: The number of civilians mandated for roles in United Nations missions has increased, as has the number of multilateral civilian peace missions. Yet, the international community’s record in strengthening civilian capacities in peace operations is …
Nye, Joseph S. “Cyber Power.” Paper (30 Pages) Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, May 2010 Power depends upon context, and the rapid growth of cyber space is an important new context in world politics. The low price of entry, anonymity, and asymmetries in vulnerability means that smaller actors …
Henry Siegman, the author of this article in the Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, is a distinguished Jewish American. He has written some of the most thoughtful and cogent criticisms of Israel’s occupation policies, prominent among these are Israel’s Lies and The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam, both published in the London Review of Books. Israel’s …
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Somalia anti-piracy patrol: Reuters Africa published a report that European Union foreign ministers are expected to extend the bloc’s anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia for another year next week. Rear Admiral Peter Hudson, Commander of the European Union Naval Force Somalia, said he expected a new extension of its mandate which expires in …
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CHUCK SPINNEY SENDS: The American sources in the attached report of the New York Times blast Turkey, essentially because it refuses to be a US lackey. Even the report’s title drips with contempt and reflects a myopia that is typical of the ego centric view of the perquisites of empire held by the American foreign …
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Smart Pig: BP’s OTHER Spill this Week by Greg Palast for Buzzflash.com Friday, May 28 2010 With the Gulf Coast dying of oil poisoning, there’s no space in the press for British Petroleum’s latest spill, just this week: over 100,000 gallons, at its Alaska pipeline operation. A hundred thousand used to be a lot. Still …
Turkey-Israel: For the record. Turkish Defense Minister Gonul said the current crisis with Israel should not delay the delivery of four remotely piloted aircraft (drones), Anatolia news agency reported June 1. Gonul said he expects the drones to be delivered in June or July. Evidently, the Turks think the plight of the Palestinians is not …
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